Recently, in an effort to unclutter my desk and the surrounding area in my office, I began a clean up effort. Most of the litter was easy to discard, and included a collection of photographs, paid bills, and various odds and ends, mostly unremarkable. But there was one item that demanded my attention. It was a dozen or so sheets from a notepad that had been stapled together, the top piece bearing a date: Saturday, June 2, 2007.
It turns out that this was a mini diary of a fishing trip I had taken to the Catskills over a decade ago. I can hardly believe it's been eleven years since that trip, but it has. I thought I'd share those special memories with you. I have quoted the diary, word for word (with some notes of explanation). I think trout fishermen will enjoy it. I hope the rest of you do, too.
Sunday, 6/3/07 – Arrived Roscoe Sunday a.m. Ate breakfast Roscoe Coffee Shops. Saw Pat & Fred [Pat was former waitress, who, together with her husband, held regular water gun fights with the patrons. She has since passed away]. Fished Sunday eve, 5:30-8:00 p.m. Hooked approx. 12 fish, landed 8, all small.
Monday, 6/4/07 – Paul met me 7 a.m.at coffee shop. [Paul and I had been fishing buddies for 27 years. We fished just this one day, before he left to go back home. After this day, we never saw one another again.] Had breakfast, then off to fish a nice run above the Roscoe Campground. No fish. Went to Barnhardt's Pool. No fish. Cemetery Pool – some size 14 Isonychia showing, couple March browns. No activity. Around 1 p.m., small gray caddis – some activity. Worked over 1/2 doz. fish for two hours. Several refusals. Finally caught 15" brown [trout] on ovipositing caddis. Nice fish. Had lunch Sunoco Pool. Fished 1 hr. – nothing! Acid Factory [another pool on the river]. 1-1/2 hrs. Nothing. Quit 4:20. Back to motel where I ran into old friend R.O.S. [Ramsey Outdoor Store, where I used to work] named Phil. Took pictures. Will fish with him at 6 a.m. [tomorrow]. Paul & I had pizza at Raimondo's. Fair!! Watched Stanley Cup.
Tuesday, 6/5/07 – Woke 5 a.m. – left 6 a.m. with Phil. Fished Cemetery Pool until 9 a.m. Stopped at Sunoco station for coffee cake & iced tea. [Gap here probably indicated a lot of hard fishing with no results until . . . ] Fished Acid Factory from 4:30-7:30. Zippo. Some Isonychia. Had one refusal to emerger. Dropped off Phil & went down to Upper Beaverkill before Junction [Pool]. Took nice, fat 12" brown on Isonychia parachute [fly]. Jumped 3X. Lots of Iso spinners. Quit 8:40.
Wednesday, 6/6/07 – Arose 4:45. Phil and I arrived Peakville [lower end of Beaverkill River near East Branch of Delaware River] around 5:45. N-O-T-H-I-N-G!! C-O-L-D. Probably 48°. Made a dozen or so casts with streamers to no avail. Left around 6:45 a.m. Called David [my eldest son] around 7:15 and talked about his trip [have no idea which trip it was]. Went back to room and slept for couple of hours, then took Kuttner [Frank Kuttner, an old friend, and a repeating character in my Matt Davis mysteries] for lunch. Returned back to room & hung out until around 4:00 p.m. Went to Acid Factory & met Steve Donaldson from Mass. Talked about 1-1/2 hrs, then went down to fish the river. Very patient, but virtually no activity. Sporadic hatching of BWO #14-18 [Blue Winged Olives mayflies], sulfurs same. Finally around 8:00, 1 or 2 fish rose a couple of times, pretty much out of reach. Made some casts, but no takers. Quit 8:40. Watched hockey!
Friday, 6/8/07 – Arose 5 a.m. Charlie came by 6 a.m. Started at Peakville around 7 a.m. A couple of fish barely working. I waded upstream of island & pricked 2 fish. Charlie stayed at pool & caught really nice 14" fish. Left water around 10:00, went for breakfast. Fished by 191 boat ramp [a section of the West Branch of the Delaware, along PA highway 191]. Hooked & lost 2 small fish. Went back to Peakville around 1:30, stayed 'til 3:00. V-e-r-y hot! Drove to Peakville. Fished 10:00 'til noon. Large fish taking small #16-18 olives. Guy caught the largest rainbow I've ever seen!! Probably 22"-26" – 2-1//2-3;1/2 lbs. E-N-O-R-M-O-U-S!! I raised several good fish, but couldn't hook up. Got hot dog around 12:30. Back to motel for nap. Knot under left shoulder blade. Got to Willowemoc 3:30. Fished until 5:30. Hooked 7 fish, landed 3. Last fish, best of trip, 14" – 15" brown. Nice jump. Beautiful colors.
This was typical of the fly fishing trips I took every year, from the time I moved to North Carolina in 1999, right up until last year. I have no trip planned for this year, but I pray to God I can resume the tradition in 2019. I may live in North Carolina, but my heart and soul reside amidst those beautiful rivers of New York's Catskill Mountains.
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The soul of a fly fisherman is never free from the waters of time. I still love my beloved Black Canyon on the Willamette in Oregon but i doubt I will ever see it again. But who knows? That's the hope!
Memories are a bliss as they help us relive moments we enjoyed in the past! Nice ones Joe. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure, Balroop. Glad you enjoyed the memories.
What a nice trip down memory lane.
Even though it was a washout, it was worth it. Just being on those beautiful streams is close to heaven.
I wasn't going to read your trip diary but did and I enjoyed it. Time does fly! Really hope you get there in 2019.
Thanks, Yo. I hope so, too.
Hi Joe, really enjoyed your reminisce of a special time and place. A great travelogue, but it was your special talent for capturing the heart that made the story so enjoyable. I guess that's what authors do automatically. I imagine that Heaven will be a compilation of these wonderful times with good friends. But without the aches.
From your lips to God's ears. Thanks for the kind words, Bruce.


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As Strippers Step Down From the Pole to Work From Home, Their Partners Step Up
Helping your girlfriend make money by tickling her for fetish clients while staying out of view of the camera is like, 10 extra levels of devotion
Hazel Sage is still a "baby stripper in the stripper chronology," having celebrated her first "stripperversary" on Superbowl Sunday in February. While she did some online sex work in college to pay for textbooks (she also worked full-time), she didn't fully commit to creating online content until last July, when she realized she could expand her client base through OnlyFans.
Given that she does most of her stripping digitally, her work hasn't changed all that much since she's been quarantined in her partner's one-bedroom apartment in Vermont. Except, that is, for the presence of her cat, who is too self-important to be locked in the bathroom while she toils in the bedroom. Which has left her with a choice: Risk howls from another room ruining the sound quality of her content, or having an animal inadvertently appearing on camera, a big no-no in her line of work. "It's really important to not let your pet get in your porn," Sage explains, because, "someone feeling petty could report you for bestiality."
It's because of harrowing moments (and decisions) like these that many sex workers, who like the rest of us are currently forced to WFH while our plague times rage on, are discovering a new level of appreciation for their partners and roommates, who have been stepping up to fill the roles of light technicians, editors, stage directors, co-stars and, of course, cat bouncers.
On that last count, Sage's partner springs into action whenever the cat starts causing too many problems. "Most of the time, his job is to keep the cat out of the shot," she tells me. But he provides other services, too. While he hasn't co-starred in any content yet, his hands have made an appearance, as one of her clients paid $110 for a "10-minute long, BRUTALLY intense, merciless tickling video," which earned him a helper's fee of 10 percent.
Tavis, a 28-year-old software engineer whose wife started stripping after her career in social work failed to pay the bills, has been using his background in filmmaking to set up the lighting for her OnlyFans content, which can require more skill than your average YouTube shoot since some sex workers have turned their bedrooms into makeshift strip clubs for Zoom-based bachelor parties and poker nights. (He's helping out in other, more "conventional husband" ways, too — e.g., the former professional cook prepares lunch for them everyday.)
There are sacrifices, though. The couple's roommates use the living room during the day, so giving up the bedroom to his wife means that he has to work in what he describes with a laugh as "a very large closet." There's also the issue of jealousy. Talking about work, every so often Tavis' wife mentions how much she appreciates one of her clients, after which he thinks to himself: Cool. Why don't you marry him? Along those lines, Tavis can't remember the last time his partner sent him a nude.
"When you spend so much time with someone, you don't always see the things that they do for you," he tells me. "I don't want to say it loses its meaning, but you don't see how special it actually is. So when someone else gets that attention, you kinda feel like, 'Well, why am I not getting any of that?'"
Along these lines, Justin, an essential worker at a grocery store, told his girlfriend, Brandi Shagwell, that she spends more time texting dudes for cash than talking to him. But for Shagwell, a longtime stripper who recently began moonlighting as a realtor and is quarantined in one of her two homes with Justin and her brother, sexting via OnlyFans has served as a low-stress way to bring in steady income during quarantine.
"[Justin] doesn't like it when I'm on my phone so often," says Brandi. "But I'm like, 'How is that any different than actually talking with them, and flirting with them in person [which she did as a stripper]?' In my opinion, it's even less intimate." Still, she tries to limit her time sexting clients to four hours a day as a compromise.
But if Justin is hoping that the end of the quarantine means Shagwell will spend less time doing sex work and more time selling houses, he's likely to be disappointed. "[Being a realtor] is way less satisfying [than stripping]," she explains. "People treat you so weird." In her "square" career selling houses, her clients treat her like a "grimy salesperson," whereas in strip clubs, she feels more like a companion or artist.
Elle Stanger, a writer who has been working in clubs for years, owns her home in Vancouver, Washington, where she lives with her boyfriend, "B." Before COVID, B had paid rent for the last nine months, but the quarantine cost him most of his income. To help him out, Elle now pays him to help set up scenes, edit material and even co-star in some of her content. "I'm lucky I can make adult content with people I have available to me," she says.
The benefits extend beyond the financial as well. "One time I gave him a private dance in our den chair, where I'd been filming custom pole videos," she says. "It was a really nice way to rekindle how we met in the first place [i.e., at a strip club]."
That said, B knows when to stay out of Stanger's hair and let her do her job. Or as she relays with admiration, "If I'm walking around naked in stilettos, looking great with my hair and makeup done, he'll shoot a glance, a smile, some cute puppy eyes, but he doesn't disrupt me or bother me for sex."
After all, there's work to be done.
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Henry Latourette Miller is a Portland-based writer completing his master's degree in urban and regional planning at Portland State University. He enjoys writing about sex work and transportation planning, which have more in common than you might think.
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Consider an undirected graph with nonnegative edge costs. You are given a set of vertices called terminals. A Steiner tree is a subset of edges that contains a path between each pair of terminals. For example, if , then the Steiner trees are the same as the connected subgraphs. It is a fact that the decision version of the Steiner tree problem is NP-complete. Give a dynamic programming algorithm for this problem (i.e., for computing a Steiner tree with the fewest number of edges) that has running time of the form , where is a constant (like 4) and poly is some polynomial function.
ANSWER: Dreyfus-Wagner's algorithm can compute a Steiner tree in time. See this paper.


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Last year, volunteers logged 9000 hours!
The Cowichan Neighbourhood House Association (CNHA) is an association of "neighbours helping neighbours", and we currently have no regular paid staff. The majority of what we do is done by adult and youth volunteers, including practicum students. Every volunteer is invited to do what they like doing, or do best. Some of us volunteer fixing up the building; some are good with youth; some are good at organizing events or administrative tasks; some teach classes; and some help out at the garage sales and free store. We plan to expand the training workshops for volunteers who work with youth or who deal with people in need, and are seeking funding.
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I think of the selections that beckon.
What next, where to go to meet my next best friend.
or to otherwise waste his time.
through all the published words of others.
but that time never seems to appear between my good friends.
Try as I have to read all that is worthy, I have not been able.
if there is even enough room on all the nightstands or corners of Heaven?
What will be left on mine?
no one will be surprised or impressed (as if I would care anyhow).
by my demise as not to notice anyway.
when there should be plenty of time for it.
to bring something fresh to the closing routine of life.
unread or even unwrapped from some Christmases past.
I must plan to leave my eternal forwarding address and wishes with Amazon.


This winter resident is fairly easy to identify with their rusty cap, black breast spot, and fairly long tail. They are the most abundant sparrow found at Goose Pond in the winter. After winter, these sparrows fly north to their breeding grounds in the tundra. We are not sure why they are called "tree" sparrows. In winter they are found in open areas at Goose Pond and they nest in the tundra in areas with scattered shrubs.
American tree sparrows are often found in small flocks on the ground, feeding on weed seeds. They frequently are found feeding with dark-eyed juncos along roadsides, in open fields, and at bird feeders. Along roadsides they are feeding on annual foxtail seeds that result from the June roadside mowing which favors the growth of foxtail grass. The mowing and winters snow plowing leaves a disturbed area adjacent to the pavement providing ideal habitat for foxtail seed to germinate.
We have been feeding birds at our feeders since 1979 and provide a constant supply of mixed birdseed (sunflower, millet, and cracked corn) spread onto the ground in several locations. Goose Pond Sanctuary is an ideal location for this winter species.
On the December Christmas Bird Count, Mark and his party only counted 19 tree sparrows at the feeders at the two residences. Usually over 100 tree sparrows are present at the feeders however we were not surprised at their low numbers. We thought the volunteers counting in the seven acre food plot would find good numbers of tree sparrows, and they did not disappoint us when they reported 132 tree sparrows. The food plot contains an abundance of foxtail and sorghum seeds.
Maia Persche, with assistance by Jim Otto, surveyed the food plot weekly beginning August 18th. Tree sparrows arrived in late October and their numbers increased to 173 individuals on November 9th. From November 9 through January 22, the weekly count ranged between 125 and 323 tree sparrows with an average weekly count of 193. It will be interesting to track their numbers for the rest of winter and to see when they begin their migration north.
We are looking forward to the Great Backyard Bird Count that is being held on February 17-20th. To participate and also to check results go to http://gbbc.birdcount.org. This bird count helps scientists to better investigate migration trends, distribution, and habitat, and you get to learn more about the birds in your area. Don't have a backyard? The Great Backyard Bird Count can be done in a park or local neighborhood area.
Tree sparrows should be easy to find in the right habitats since Partners in Flight estimates the breeding population of American Tree Sparrow at 20 million, with 87% spending some part of the winter south of the Canadian border.


> I've patched Test::Harness to easily allow a TAP::Harness subclass using > a HARNESS_SUBCLASS environment variable. I'd like to be able to set > TAP_HARNESS_ARCHIVE_FILE environment variable (or some similar name) > instead of the required parameter to new(). If so, then I should be > able to get existing smoke test rigs to spit out TAP archives with > minimal changes to distribution testing code, which could be useful for > various types of regression testing, CPAN Testers 2.0, etc.


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The music of Knelt Rote defies easy classification. The band is clearly heavily influenced by the darker elements of Death and Black Metal, the more vicious strains of Grindcore and Punk, and the brutal nihilism of Harsh Noise and Industrial Music. Consequently, the three tracks on the band's second album, "Insignificance," bare the markings of each of these sub-genres of extreme music. While the merging of disparate sounds is often a dodgy venture, unlike most bands that try and fail in this endeavor, Knelt Rote do not attempt to sew together a patchwork of ideas. Rather, the band's union of styles comes across more as superimposition with the resultant image being one that displays the commonalities of each of those various facets of expression. In this way, Knelt Rote defy the homogeneity that infects a great deal of the music being made in each of the aforementioned categories of music. The band nonetheless maintains a sense of purpose that unifies their work. When listening to "Insignificance" one never gets the sense that the band is trying too hard to push boundaries. Instead, the sounds presented on the album feel like the natural emanations of the minds involved in its creation with myriad ideas interwoven like tentacles attached to the same massive beast. Although the highly regarded Parasitic Records released an excellent vinyl edition of this recording a couple of years ago, NWN! has chosen to present this album on CD so that it can be widely proliferated and get the attention it rightfully deserves. Knelt Rote is currently preparing a third album for release on NWN! Productions.
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Some days I picture myself in a Family Circus comic, where you can see the path of footprints through the house with all of the unnecessary turns and stops all the way through. If I tracked my steps around this house in a single day, it would be hilarious! Back, forth, around in circles, up, down, repeat. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE IT.
I have felt mildly to moderately insane over the past few days. Dan has been immersed in a skydiving course, so the little boys and I have been flying solo. I try not to speak of bodily fluids too much on my food blog, but I will just say we have had our share of bodily-fluid-related incidents..


Source: This article first appeared in The Times of Israel on Aug. 11, 2014.
Sources in Gaza told the website that Hamas took a series of precautions to prevent information from reaching Israel. The terror organization would reportedly blindfold the excavators en route to the sites and back, to prevent them from recognizing the locations. The tunnels were strictly supervised by Hamas members, and civilians were kept far from the sites.
M., a former tunnel digger and Israeli collaborator, told the website that Hamas would strip search the workers to ensure they had no recording devices or cameras hidden on them.
"The people we met had their faces covered; no one knew them by their real names, it was all codes and first names. They didn't want to take the risk that some of the diggers were collaborating with Israel," he said.
In 2012, a Journal of Palestine Studies article claimed 160 Palestinian children were killed while working on Hamas's tunnel system.
The digging of tunnels began four years ago and has demanded 40 percent of Hamas's budget, The Times of Israel has learned.
Tunnel diggers have been using electric or pneumatic jackhammers, advancing 4-5 meters a day. The tunnels found were reportedly mostly dug 18-25 meters (60-82 feet) underground, though one was discovered at a depth of 35 meters (115 feet). "That's like a 10-story building underground," one expert said.
Digging requires engineering and geological expertise, with tunnels usually dug through sandy soil, their roof supported by a more durable level of clay. As they are dug, the tunnels are reinforced by concrete panels, manufactured locally in workshops adjacent to each tunnel. These workshops have also been targeted by the IDF throughout its military operation.


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For their fifth full-length After the Party, The Menzingers set out to make the quintessential jukebox record: an unstoppably melodic album primed for bar-room sing-alongs. Delivering anthemic harmonies, furious power chords, and larger-than-life melodies, the Philadelphia-based garage-punk four-piece amply fulfills that mission while achieving something much more deeply nuanced. With it's delicately crafted storytelling and everyman romanticism, After the Party ultimately proves to be a wistful but life-affirming reflection on getting older but not quite growing up.
"We spent our 20s living in a rowdy kind of way, and now we're at a point where it seems like everyone in our lives is moving in different directions," says Tom May, who joined fellow singer/guitarist Greg Barnett, bassist Eric Keen, and drummer Joe Godino in forming The Menzingers as teenagers in their hometown of Scranton. With each song unfolding as it's own fully realized story, After the Party came to life thanks largely to an introspective yet outward-looking lyrical sensibility on the part of Barnett and May.
Produced by Will Yip (Title Fight, Balance & Composure, Pianos Become the Teeth) and recorded in Yip's Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based Studio 4, After the Party finds the band breaking into new sonic terrain. The Menzingers' most refined album to date, After the Party was also shaped from an intensive writing and pre-production process that involved holing up for five weeks in Yip's studio. Along with sculpting more expansive arrangements, the band focused on experimenting with new effects and production techniques to forge the album's dynamic but intricately textured sound.
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Song of Horror Game review
author: Filip "fsm" Grabski
Born in '84, likes heavy music, reads a lot, and watches even more – movies & series are his bread and butter. And he plays. He plays with youthful enthusiasm and prefers a short, but intense single-player story to almost any open world.
Song of Horror Review – Often Scary, but in the Wrong Way
Song of Horror is a frightening game that focuses on classic presentation of action, sneaking, and solving puzzles. But was everything that frightens the player surely intended by the creators?
The review is based on the PC version.
Halloween favors horror. The days are getting shorter, the temperature is getting lower, and all sorts of precipitation is constantly falling from the sky. Song of Horror evokes exactly this feeling – it's a cold and drizzly debut from Spanish Protocol Games. Making a horror movie seems easy enough – as proof, see hundreds of movies, books and games that we can access at will. It is much more difficult to make the horror good, memorable, touching, and original. There's not that many truly compelling horrors, and the creators are striving to come up with some original gimmicks with each release.
WHERE'S THE SCORE
Song of Horror will be released in episodes. The final verdict will be given once all the episodes are out. The provisional score so far is 6/10.
thick, suggestive atmosphere;
level design is really beautiful and full of details;
interesting idea with perma-death of heroes;
intriguing plot;
good, though simple, puzzles.
classic camera works and annoying controls;
irksome QTEs;
underwhelming animations;
ugly cut scenes (fortunately, there are few of them);
sometimes unclear instructions;
the game likes killing heroes "just because."
Song Horror bets on a painstakingly formulaic approach to gameplay and scaring the player. Retro motifs are now in fashion, so this kind of solution seems warranted, but the adverb in the previous sentence is there for a good reason. The Spanish game is an episodic adventure inspired by Alone in the Dark, as well as the first installments of Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Here, however – in accordance with the trend introduced a good few years ago – there's no combat. The player's character explores different levels, looking for clues, solving puzzles and trying not to die, and all this is displayed with cameras floating somewhere around the locations.
The beginning – Daniel won't be coming home soon.
Hey, who's there looking at me!?
The centerpiece of this story is a cute music box, which is playing a melody that influences the way we perceive reality. Or maybe it opens the gates to a place that's much more dismal than a November night? The music box was a gift from an antiquarian to his friend, a famous writer, who mysteriously vanishes soon thereafter. The publisher is growing impatient – after all, the draft of the new novel should have been ready by now, so he sends Daniel, a guy who can get anything done, to find out what's going on. But he also disappears, bafflingly, without a trace. Now, what do the Gods of Narration demand? More people investigating the haunted house!
Horror in installments
Song of Horror releases as two episodes of the five planned, all lasting a total of 4 to 6 hours – depending on luck and resilience to the dark force called the Presence. Before the beginning of each of the sections, you need to choose one of the four characters who will take the challenge. Heroes differ in several features, theoretically affecting how the game is played. A strong person will shut the door before the demonic hand can reach them, a "quiet" person will try to avoid the Presence altogether, and, for example, a person endowed with great calmness will not panic so quickly, and so the Presence will not absorb them right away.
But it said "rustic decor" in the ad!
An extra spin here is the fact that each of the characters can die, and his or her death will be definite. Thus, we either complete the game with one of the subsequent characters, or ultimately fail with the last of them dying. This basically is a modernized variation of typical "lives" in games – here, they're shared among all the characters, and this nicely adds to the tension, which is mandatory in horror.
Unfortunately, however, a few decisions seem to diminish the potential of this solution. The attacks of the above-mentioned dark force are manifested in three ways (more on the way, apparently). If black goo is leaking through the door, and you can see black hands with fingernails that could use some care, you have to shut the door using a bit awkward, but acceptable (if it doesn't happen too often) QTE. If we encounter a blind demon, we need to hold the breath, and move the mouse according to prompts on the screen until the beast leaves, and this works just fine.
But there are also some more intense attacks – the Presence pours in from each hole, door, and cabinet – then you've gotta take to the heels and hide. Once you manage to do that, you have to calm your nerves by settling the pulse – this was designed in such a way, that only the calmest characters have no trouble doing that. Everyone else can pack up and go to hell – we have to aim the cursor into a frame that's just indecently small. And so we lose another character, and fear gives way to frustration.
The cop is bad at sneaking, but has some muscle!
The camera system, adhering to the classic games of the genre, does not help. Creative shots sometimes enhance the cinematography of our adventure, but Song of Horror loses its resonance when a sudden change of camera angle causes the hero to immediately turn around and walk the other way. And if that happens when you're trying to reach a door to shut it just before something nasty enters your world, your mouth wants to spell words that would not be appropriate in this, otherwise elegant, review.
Let me just tear the bandage off and dive right into some of the other blemishes I found particularly off-putting: we have poor facial animations, ugly, pseudo-cel-shaded cut-scenes, occasional, minor glitches (wrong subtitles or faulty sound), and sometimes just unclear instructions that hamper progress. The latter issue often results in the player just walking around the locations at random to look for whatever they might have missed. This, combined with the way the camera works, the slow movement, and the fact that the game can kill you just like that (for example because you dared to uncover a mirror – which I admit is a fun idea in its own way) can render the game a rather irksome experience.
Safe and sound in the basement.
Fortunately, however, all these pitfalls do not spoil the game entirely. Song of Horror has a few, very neat tricks up its sleeve, and they ought to be appreciated by all players, not just fans of the genre. The presentation of the environment, for example, stands in stark contrast with the way characters look. The haunted house, the old bookstore, the cellars, the tenement house – all the locations were created with good attention to detail, dressed in fine textures and pleasing lighting effects. Song of Horror does look really well.
Ugly? Yes, but with potential!
Things aren't much more cheerful outside.
The graphics, combined with suggestive audio, creates a gloomy atmosphere, that can rival pretty much any high-budget game. The horror is palpable, and jump-scares are few and far between, and thus welcome. In this pleasantly unpleasant environment, the characters walk about, searching for items and solving puzzles. It's an adventure game, after all. The challenges the player faces aren't very difficult, but they're mostly inventive and fitting for the world. Apart from the unrealistic and rather forced puzzle that has the player running around the rooms of the antiquarian looking for keys, all the others were totally enjoyable. Especially since at this stage, the plot Song of Horror still has great potential, and remains compelling enough to keep me engaged.
Any fan of horror will surely be willing to shrug some of these shortcomings off. Song of Horror often asks forbearance, and it will be up to personal judgment whether it is granted – lowering the difficulty can help a lot, as the game becomes less frustrating with less frequent invasions of the Presence. I cannot shake off the feeling, however, that the devs made a mistake by sticking to the classic perspective and the QTEs. If the game was presented like a standard, modern TPP, it could have been so much better. At this point, Song of Horror seems to me a fantastic horror, that won't be able to fully spread wings. But we will see how things look after all five episodes – who knows, maybe I will be willing to give it a lot more credit.
I'm a passionate fan of horrors ever since Silent Hill 2 came out on PC. There's not many games I'd consider on par with that excellent classic, but I'm still looking. Song of Horror provided a few hours of good fun, but something wasn't right most of the time. Fortunately, the code seems stable, allowing me to play smoothly at highest details in full HD, on a computer with a Ryzen 5 1600, 16 GB of RAM and a Radeon RX 570 4 GB.
The Webedia Group is a partner of the Song of Horror project, released by Raiser Games.
Filip "fsm" Grabski | Gamepressure.com
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest Review - A Howling, Barking, Gripping Adventure
Heart of the Forest brings an eerie setting, some fantastic writing, and an atmosphere to remember. The game is heavy on text (because, you know, visual novel), but if you're willing to invest the time, it will repay you with a powerful adventure.
Tell Me Why Review – Substance Over Style!
The new game from the creators of Life is Strange brings a surprisingly sensible approach to difficult subjects, as well as some very powerful emotions and messages.
Song of Horror Adventure
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Song of Horror for PC turned out a pleasant surprise for our users - the current average score is higher than pre-release user expectations.
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Today we started the day off with cereal and toilet scrubbing. Afterwards Smudge took me to Charming Elise to go over the race course. After, we returned to La Bella Vita and relayed the course to the rest of the crew. We raced and got 5th out of 9. That's the best record for La Bella Vita ever. We are now at West End, relaxing on the dock, waiting for tonight's BBQ.


The core structure of a fine piano can last for several generations although refurbishing is appropriate at some point. Below are some pictures of a rebuild project of a Conover baby grand piano. This piano was manufactured in the second decade of the 1900s. This was a solid instrument and well worth the tear down, refinishing, and replacement of key components.
We don't have pictures of the total tear-down when the metal plate was removed for soundboard reconditioning and refinishing. (Apparently too busy with the project to remember to take pictures.) But you can clearly see the original condition compared with the finished product.


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Manansala new UST coach
Michael Jugado
FORMER University of Santo Tomas Tiger Cubs coach and Growling Tigers assistant Jiniño Manansala is reportedly set to take over from Aldin Ayo at the helm of UST.
The son of former University of the East star and PBA Rookie of the Year awardee Jimmy, Manansala was named UST juniors' tactician just last July, but he resigned as one of Ayo's deputies along with McJour Luib amid the Sorsogon bubble controversy.
Luib is also reportedly set to be named new Tiger Cubs coach.
Manansala played for UST under the late great Aric Del Rosario from 1999-2003 before opting to try his hand at coaching. He guided St. Clare College of Caloocan to a 'four-peat' in the NAASCU.
Meanwhile, University of Santo Tomas is reportedly endorsing the appeal of former coach Aldin Ayo to the UAAP Board of Trustees to reconsider his indefinite suspension.
The Varsitarian, the school's official student publication, reported last Wednesday night that a high-ranking official who requested anonymity has backed Ayo's appeal after the Sorsogon City PNP and the provincial government last Oct. 2 cleared Ayo of any liability in the alleged training bubble in his hometown in Capuy from mid-June to August.
"UST has endorsed the letter of appeal of coach Aldin Ayo subject to the qualification that it stands by the report of its fact-finding committee," the school official was quoted as saying.
"We strongly believe that the penalty imposed by the UAAP Board is too harsh."
The ban handed by the Board of Trustees, composed of university presidents, was based on the findings of the UST fact-finding committee.
Ayo, who will turn 43 on Oct. 15, resigned at the helm of the Growling Tigers last Sept. 4 and was suspended from all league events and activities last Sept. 9.
The Sorsogon City PNP and Gov. Francis "Chiz" Escudero ruled out Ayo, a former three-term councilor of the city, from making any violation, saying UST secured all the necessary documents before going to Capuy, declaring that they are not persons under monitoring (PUMs), did not have any COVID-19 symptoms for 14 days, were tested seven days prior to the trip, and secured all the necessary travel pass from the Joint Task Force COVID Shield.
A 14-day mandatory home quarantine was also put in place before the team went on a "personal development farm training," that was certified by the Capuy barangay captain, the PNP memorandum added.
In his sworn statement, Ayo said his players engaged mainly in farm work in exchange for allowance, free meals, and free lodging.
The players "were allowed to make use of a basketball court which is enclosed inside the living room of (Ayo's) house where the players had individual training and not team practice," the report said.
Ayo is likely not yet off the hook.
The Commission on Higher Education has issued a show cause order to UST for violating its advisories that "prohibited mass gatherings such as ceremonies and school activities, until the IATF prohibition is lifted," last Sept. 7.
The Department of Justice and Department of Interior Local Government are also probing the incident.
The ill-fated UST bubble was pricked after Cansino said he was kicked out of the team due to "defiance of authority" last Aug. 21.
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Today in African-American Transportation History – February 22
Today in African-American Transportation History – 1997: A Trailblazer Retires from the U.S. Air Force
African-American aviation pioneer and U.S. Air Force (USAF) Major General Marcelite Jordan Harris retired after more than three decades of service in the nation's military aerial service branch. Harris, who was born in Texas in 1943, initially sought to pursue a career in the theater and graduated from Spelman College in 1964 with a B.A. in speech and drama. Ultimately, however, she decided to make a career out of the USAF instead and was admitted to that military branch's Officer Training School at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
Harris became the USAF's first female aircraft maintenance officer. She subsequently achieved other milestones, which included her promotion as the USAF's first director of maintenance; in that role, she oversaw a workforce of 120,000 technicians and managers. In 1995, Harris was promoted to major general and as a result became the first African-American female to attain that USAF rank. This final assignment in her military career made her accountable for each and every aircraft used by the USAF.
When Harris retired two years later, she was not only the highest-ranking female USAF officer but also the highest-ranking African-American female officer within the entire U.S. Department of Defense. Her trailblazing accomplishments throughout her military tenure earned her a place alongside such other aviation pioneers as Bessie Coleman, who in 1921 had become the first African-American woman to earn an airplane pilot's license. Harris has also earned a number of awards, including one given by the National Organization of Tuskegee Airmen. "You don't have to be gifted, just dedicated," she once said in an interview published in Jane's Defense Weekly magazine. "There's nothing mysterious about it."
For more information on Marcelite J. Harris, please check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelite_J._Harris
Today in African-American Transportation History – 1947: A Pioneering Officer Completes His U.S. Navy Service
Today in African-American Transportation History – 1915: A Final Bon Voyage for a Civil War Hero


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i. Microvision Software CC is a software service company that developed MASTER –C Reloaded, which is a school management and administration system with a variety of features that assist educators and facilitate information communication with the Department of Education.
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Hello Mrs.Ackerman, I am a current Junior at Nazareth Area High School and I have to conduct a Job Shadow for my Junior Seminar class, at school. I am very interested in journalism, writing, and editing/publishing, and I plan to pursue that career in college. I hope you can get back to me about a Job Shadow opportunity. Thank you for your time.


Pulmonary function testing measures how well you are breathing. There are different types of pulmonary function tests that can be done. Spirometry is one type of pulmonary function test. Spirometry is a simple test to measure how much (volume) and how fast (flow) you can move air into and out of your lungs.
Why test my lung function?
Through routine spirometry, lung diseases can often be diagnosed in the early stages when treatment is most effective. Once a lung disease is diagnosed and treated, routine spirometry tests can monitor changes in lung functions with specific treatment. This will help your doctor find the best treatment plan for you.
What happens during the spirometry test?
You will be instructed how to perform spirometry. Basically, you will take in a deep breath and blow into a mouthpiece attached to the spirometer. You will blow out as hard and as fast as you can until your lungs feel absolutely empty. You will be asked to repeat the test several more times until there are two to three good efforts. You will be coached and encouraged to do your best during the test. A good effort during the test is important to get good results.
A computerized sensor (which is part of the spirometer) calculates and graphs the results. The results demonstrate an person's air flow rates or the volume forced out within the first second. This is the Forced Expiratory Volume in the first second (FEV1). This indicates whether or not there is airway obstruction. Spirometry also records the total volume of air forced out of the lungs. This is the Forced Vital Capacity (FVC). The percentage of the FVC exhaled in the first second (FEV1) is also calculated with spirometry. The is the FEV1/FVC. These Spirometry results will help your doctor determine the best treatment for you.


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package org.springframework.security.config.web.server;

import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.ReactiveAuthenticationManager;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.TestingAuthenticationToken;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.reactive.EnableWebFluxSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.config.test.SpringTestRule;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.OAuth2AuthorizedClient;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.annotation.RegisteredOAuth2AuthorizedClient;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.authentication.OAuth2AuthorizationCodeAuthenticationToken;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.registration.ClientRegistration;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.registration.InMemoryReactiveClientRegistrationRepository;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.registration.ReactiveClientRegistrationRepository;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.registration.TestClientRegistrations;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.web.server.ServerOAuth2AuthorizedClientRepository;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.core.OAuth2AccessToken;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.core.TestOAuth2AccessTokens;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.core.endpoint.OAuth2AuthorizationExchange;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.core.endpoint.TestOAuth2AuthorizationExchanges;
import org.springframework.security.test.context.annotation.SecurityTestExecutionListeners;
import org.springframework.security.test.context.support.WithMockUser;
import org.springframework.security.web.server.SecurityWebFilterChain;
import org.springframework.security.web.server.authentication.ServerAuthenticationConverter;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
import org.springframework.test.web.reactive.server.WebTestClient;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
import org.springframework.web.reactive.config.EnableWebFlux;
import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.any;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

/**
 * @author Rob Winch
 * @since 5.1
 */
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SecurityTestExecutionListeners
public class OAuth2ClientSpecTests {
	@Rule
	public final SpringTestRule spring = new SpringTestRule();

	private WebTestClient client;

	private ClientRegistration registration = TestClientRegistrations.clientRegistration().build();

	@Autowired
	public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext context) {
		this.client = WebTestClient.bindToApplicationContext(context).build();
	}

	@Test
	@WithMockUser
	public void registeredOAuth2AuthorizedClientWhenAuthenticatedThenRedirects() {
		this.spring.register(Config.class, AuthorizedClientController.class).autowire();
		ReactiveClientRegistrationRepository repository = this.spring.getContext()
				.getBean(ReactiveClientRegistrationRepository.class);
		ServerOAuth2AuthorizedClientRepository authorizedClientRepository = this.spring.getContext().getBean(ServerOAuth2AuthorizedClientRepository.class);
		when(repository.findByRegistrationId(any())).thenReturn(Mono.just(TestClientRegistrations.clientRegistration().build()));
		when(authorizedClientRepository.loadAuthorizedClient(any(), any(), any())).thenReturn(Mono.empty());

		this.client.get().uri("/")
			.exchange()
			.expectStatus().is3xxRedirection();
	}

	@Test
	public void registeredOAuth2AuthorizedClientWhenAnonymousThenRedirects() {
		this.spring.register(Config.class, AuthorizedClientController.class).autowire();
		ReactiveClientRegistrationRepository repository = this.spring.getContext()
				.getBean(ReactiveClientRegistrationRepository.class);
		ServerOAuth2AuthorizedClientRepository authorizedClientRepository = this.spring.getContext().getBean(ServerOAuth2AuthorizedClientRepository.class);
		when(repository.findByRegistrationId(any())).thenReturn(Mono.just(TestClientRegistrations.clientRegistration().build()));
		when(authorizedClientRepository.loadAuthorizedClient(any(), any(), any())).thenReturn(Mono.empty());

		this.client.get().uri("/")
				.exchange()
				.expectStatus().is3xxRedirection();
	}

	@EnableWebFlux
	@EnableWebFluxSecurity
	static class Config {
		@Bean
		SecurityWebFilterChain springSecurity(ServerHttpSecurity http) {
			http
				.oauth2Client();
			return http.build();
		}

		@Bean
		ReactiveClientRegistrationRepository clientRegistrationRepository() {
			return mock(ReactiveClientRegistrationRepository.class);
		}

		@Bean
		ServerOAuth2AuthorizedClientRepository authorizedClientRepository() {
			return mock(ServerOAuth2AuthorizedClientRepository.class);
		}
	}

	@RestController
	static class AuthorizedClientController {
		@GetMapping("/")
		String home(@RegisteredOAuth2AuthorizedClient("github") OAuth2AuthorizedClient authorizedClient) {
			return "home";
		}
	}

	@Test
	public void oauth2ClientWhenCustomObjectsThenUsed() {
		this.spring.register(ClientRegistrationConfig.class, OAuth2ClientCustomConfig.class, AuthorizedClientController.class).autowire();

		OAuth2ClientCustomConfig config = this.spring.getContext().getBean(OAuth2ClientCustomConfig.class);

		ServerAuthenticationConverter converter = config.authenticationConverter;
		ReactiveAuthenticationManager manager = config.manager;

		OAuth2AuthorizationExchange exchange = TestOAuth2AuthorizationExchanges.success();
		OAuth2AccessToken accessToken = TestOAuth2AccessTokens.noScopes();

		OAuth2AuthorizationCodeAuthenticationToken result = new OAuth2AuthorizationCodeAuthenticationToken(this.registration, exchange, accessToken);

		when(converter.convert(any())).thenReturn(Mono.just(new TestingAuthenticationToken("a", "b", "c")));
		when(manager.authenticate(any())).thenReturn(Mono.just(result));

		this.client.get()
			.uri("/authorize/oauth2/code/registration-id")
			.exchange()
			.expectStatus().is3xxRedirection();

		verify(converter).convert(any());
		verify(manager).authenticate(any());
	}

	@EnableWebFlux
	@EnableWebFluxSecurity
	static class ClientRegistrationConfig {
		private ClientRegistration clientRegistration = TestClientRegistrations.clientRegistration()
				.build();

		@Bean
		InMemoryReactiveClientRegistrationRepository clientRegistrationRepository() {
			return new InMemoryReactiveClientRegistrationRepository(this.clientRegistration);
		}
	}

	@Configuration
	static class OAuth2ClientCustomConfig {
		ReactiveAuthenticationManager manager = mock(ReactiveAuthenticationManager.class);

		ServerAuthenticationConverter authenticationConverter = mock(ServerAuthenticationConverter.class);

		@Bean
		public SecurityWebFilterChain springSecurityFilter(ServerHttpSecurity http) {
			http
				.oauth2Client()
					.authenticationConverter(this.authenticationConverter)
					.authenticationManager(this.manager);
			return http.build();
		}
	}

	@Test
	public void oauth2ClientWhenCustomObjectsInLambdaThenUsed() {
		this.spring.register(ClientRegistrationConfig.class, OAuth2ClientInLambdaCustomConfig.class, AuthorizedClientController.class).autowire();

		OAuth2ClientInLambdaCustomConfig config = this.spring.getContext().getBean(OAuth2ClientInLambdaCustomConfig.class);

		ServerAuthenticationConverter converter = config.authenticationConverter;
		ReactiveAuthenticationManager manager = config.manager;

		OAuth2AuthorizationExchange exchange = TestOAuth2AuthorizationExchanges.success();
		OAuth2AccessToken accessToken = TestOAuth2AccessTokens.noScopes();

		OAuth2AuthorizationCodeAuthenticationToken result = new OAuth2AuthorizationCodeAuthenticationToken(this.registration, exchange, accessToken);

		when(converter.convert(any())).thenReturn(Mono.just(new TestingAuthenticationToken("a", "b", "c")));
		when(manager.authenticate(any())).thenReturn(Mono.just(result));

		this.client.get()
				.uri("/authorize/oauth2/code/registration-id")
				.exchange()
				.expectStatus().is3xxRedirection();

		verify(converter).convert(any());
		verify(manager).authenticate(any());
	}

	@Configuration
	static class OAuth2ClientInLambdaCustomConfig {
		ReactiveAuthenticationManager manager = mock(ReactiveAuthenticationManager.class);

		ServerAuthenticationConverter authenticationConverter = mock(ServerAuthenticationConverter.class);

		@Bean
		public SecurityWebFilterChain springSecurityFilter(ServerHttpSecurity http) {
			http
				.oauth2Client(oauth2Client ->
					oauth2Client
						.authenticationConverter(this.authenticationConverter)
						.authenticationManager(this.manager)
				);
			return http.build();
		}
	}
}

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Stand To Reason After I met Gregory Koukl at a local apologetics conference, my love for his writings and ministry has simply flourished. Stand To Reason is his online HQ; I mainly use it for reading his blog posts and for listening to his podcast.
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Q: Adjusting the fucntion to find location for more than one base I created this function and it finds the location of the base in a dna sequences. Like dna = ['A', 'G', 'C', 'G', 'T', 'A', 'G', 'T', 'C', 'G', 'A', 'T', 'C', 'A', 'A', 'T', 'T', 'A', 'T', 'A', 'C', 'G', 'A', 'T', 'C', 'G', 'G', 'G', 'T', 'A', 'T']. I need it to find more than one base at a time like 'A''T'. Can anyone help?
def position(list, value):
     pos = []
     for n in range(len(list)):
             if list[n] == value:
                     pos.append(n)
     return pos

A: You can work with the dna sequence as a string, and then use regex:
import re

dna_str = ''.join(dna)

pattern = r'AT'

pos = [(i.start(0), i.end(0)) for i in re.finditer(pattern, dna_str)]
print(pos)

[(10, 12), (14, 16), (17, 19), (22, 24), (29, 31)]

A: side note, good not to use keywords for variable names. list is a python keyword
def position(l: list, values: list): -> list
     pos = []
     for i, val in enumerate(l):
             if val in values:
                     pos.append(i)
     return pos

A: You should definitely use Python built-in functions. For instance, instead of position(list, value) you could use comprehension
[n for n,x in enumerate(dna) if x == 'A']

Finding a bigram could be reduced to the above if you consider pairs of letters:
[n for n,x in enumerate(zip(dna[:-1], dna[1:])) if x==('A','T')]

If instead you want to find the positions of either 'A' or 'T', you could just specify that as the condition
[n for n,x in enumerate(dna) if x in ('A', 'T')]

A: Python will efficiently find a substring of a string starting from any point.
def positions(dnalist, substr):
    dna = "".join(dnalist) # make single string
    st = 0
    pos = []
    while True:
        a_pos = dna.find(substr, st)
        if a_pos < 0:
            return pos
        pos.append(a_pos)
        st = a_pos + 1

Test usage:
>>> testdna = ['A', 'G', 'C', 'G', 'T', 'A', 'G', 'T', 'C', 'G', 'A', 'T', 'C', 'A', 'A', 'T', 'T', 'A', 'T', 'A', 'C', 'G', 'A', 'T', 'C', 'G', 'G', 'G', 'T', 'A', 'T']
>>> positions(testdna, "AT")
[10, 14, 17, 22, 29]

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